Composite/manipulated images - Image Bank

This image is an example of a composite image. This is considered composite as the woman in the image is lifting a car up with one hand to let a boy get a football that was under it. The car was imposed into the image through Photoshop, which you can tell as the it is a computer generated image of a car.

This is an example of an image that has been manipulated through software. The image was likely taken with the man laying on the floor over the yellow lines and the yellow tape glued down onto the yellow lines so it appears they come out of the yellow lines on the floor. The person who made this probably used a spot healing or clone brush to turn the yellow lines on the floor into concrete so that it appears that the yellow lines come out of the floor, over his head and back into the floor again.

This image has been heavily manipulated in photoshop. The person who made this image likely took the image in a studio then opened it on photoshop and used the Liquify tool to distort parts of the person's face.

 The image above is almost completely composite. While the image of the road and the cars may be real, The waves we're imposed into the image. The waves look as if they have been entirely created through VFX and were imposed around the image of the road. There is also a figure of moses in the bottom right which has been added into the image.

This image is an image that has been manipulated. The image uses a real pear that has had a section cut out of it. It has then has a light bulb superimposed into the hole and the screw part of the bulb has been imposed onto the top part of the pear so that it appears the whole pear is a lightbulb and the stalk is growing out of the bottom of the bulb.

Landscape - Image Bank

This landscape is very well composed; the cloud fits nicely in the frame and stops at about the halfway mark. It also shows the horizon as a neat line across the image, which fits nicely into the bottom third of the image. The image has made good use of the rule of thirds composition rule, as the tree has been placed on the line of the grid so that your eyes are drawn to it.

This Landscape contains leading lines in the form of a road that leads you to the horizon. Unlike the previous image, the horizon is not a neat line and the image is not very neatly composed. This image contain some muted shades of green, unlike the previous image which contained all very saturated colours.

This is a Landscape by Ansel Adams. It was taken on a film camera using sepia film, therefore it contains all muted colours and contains mainly light tones. This has been taken from an eye level perspective, therefore it shows us the size of the mountains and what it's like to be at the place it was taken.

This image is by Rut Blees Luxemburg. Although this is a landscape, it is very different in shooting style to the others. It has been shot from a worms eye view and is at a slightly canted angle. It has also been taken using a long exposure, therefore, there is some motion blur from the cars that were on the road.

This landscape has been taken from an eye level perspective, therefore we don not get to see the scene from a high angle, or from a low angle so we can see the sky and the horizon. The rule of thirds could be applied to this picture, as the middle of the bridge fits roughly into the middle of the left vertical line of the grid, so your attention is drawn to the bridge.

Photo Documentary - Image Bank

I like this photo because it shows lots of contrast in different ideas. There are two very young children, who act as a symbol of innocence, which is contrasted by the barbed wire which they are behind, which is a symbol of violence and oppression. The children's distressed expressions show that they have lost some of the innocence of childhood due to the situation they are in.

This also shows childhood, however, this child living in much better situations, means their childhood innocence is maintained. They are seen falling over, and trying to regain their balance, which is a sign they are able to live a normal childhood and worry about small things like this rather than big things like war or famine.

The image above shows people from a different walk of life altogether; the people in the picture are adult labourers. From the picture you can deduce they are working class, as they are working as labourers. Each person sitting on the beam has a different facial expression, all of which reflect how they feel about sitting there to eat lunch and working there.

This pictures somebody from a similar job to what is shown on the previous image. This man has a very blank expression on his face, and is focussed on the rivet he is tightening, which shows he is concentrating on the job at hand. Therefore, this shows a man from a similar job as in the previous image, but at a time of day when he is very busy, rather than relaxing at his lunch break.

The photo shown above is far less candid than the others; the photographer has stopped and asked the girl if he could take her photo and told her to look into the camera when he did. I feel like the girl used in the photo can help you get a better understanding of where she is from and where this was taken based on her face and the clothes she is wearing.

Portraiture - Image Bank

This is a portrait photo by Annie Leibovitz. The person in the photo is actress Jodie Foster. Whoever took this photo used an extreme close up and also vignetting, so that attention is drawn to the face, and other details are dark.

This is another portrait by Annie Leibovitz. The subject of the photo is actress Angelina Jolie. Unlike the Previous image, this appears to have not been taken in the studio. This means there is no vignetting or studio lighting. Also, this is image is taken more from a mid shot perspective rather than as a close up.

The image above is taken by Alec Soth. This is a very different type of portrait than the other two above, as it is taken far further away from the subject; you can see the man's whole body. Also, this image was not taken of a celebrity. This was taken somewhere in public, and the background is a lot less neat than in the other picture; there is lots of uneven floor and there are bits of broken wood in the background.

This Portrait is much less detailed than the previous ones. It has been taken in a studio on a white background, with no vignetting or selective lighting. It has a wide depth of field, therefore everything is on focus. It looks almost like it could be a passport photo, partly due to the blank expression of the man feature in the image. This photograph was taken by Thomas Ruff

Joiners - Image Bank

This joiner image is a portrait of a man. The image used to make this joiner were taken of the same man in the same location, however, they have been taken at different times so capture different viewpoints as he moves his face.

This has been taken from the bottom of some stairs. Similar to the previous image, it has some different viewpoints other than head on. However, because the stairs are a static object, the camera has been moved around to capture the viewpoints instead of the subject moving.

This is a very different type of joiner than the other two, as it is of a landscape. This joiner is less disorganised than the others, and has lots of layers covering each other. It is also made up of less images than the other two.

This joiner image is similar to the one above, but this has a few different viewpoints that were added to the image on the sides. This also has been taken from a closer perspective.

The image below is made up of very few images; far less than the previous joiners. There are lots of overlapping layers, and there are lots of different exposure levels throughout the layers. Some are very bright, whereas some are very dark and grey.

Image Bank - Depth

Depth Of Field is the size of the area that is in focus. It is the space in front of and behind the focal point that still remains sharp

This is an example of shallow depth of field. As you can see, there is only a small amount of the image that is in focus and the rest of the image is very defocussed. To achieve a shallow depth of field, you need a low f stop value e.g f3.5. The closer you are to the subject, the shallower the depth of field will be. 

This is an example of wide depth of field. You need a high F stop e.g. f22, which is a very narrow aperture. As you can see, all of the picture is in focus, which is what we call a wide depth of field. Generally, the further away you are from what you are photographing, the wider the depth of field will be. 

This is use of a narrow depth of field. The focus point is near the front on the padlock, while the rest of the image behind it is out of focus. The f stop would have been around 3.5.

However, this image has a very wide depth of field. This means it would be taken on a narrow aperture e.g. f22. The wide depth of field means everything in the picture is in focus.

Movement - Image bank

  

   This photo was taken using a long exposure, therefore the vehicles in motion have been captured with lots of motion blur. In fact, they have vanished due to the length of the exposure and you can only see the lights.

 

This image is very similar to the one above; it has been taken using a long exposure, and is an image of vehicles in motion in which you can only see the lights from the vehicles. However, this image has been taken from a closer perspective , so we can only see one lane of traffic, with the motion blurred lights spanning across the whole picture.

 

The photo has been taken using a very fast exposure, therefore it creates a freeze frame effect instead of a motion blur effect. This image image has a narrow depth of field due to the wide aperture required to acheive a very fast shutter speed.

 

The image above is taken using a long exposure. The exposure makes the flowing water looks soft and almost like it is mist.

  This photo was taken using a fast exposure. The photographer that took this photograph used the exposure to capture water being poured over someone's head. The result is that you can see the water both coming down onto his head and over his face in one image.

Reflection - Image bank

 This image shows a horizontal reflection. It is a reflection of two cyclists, and also reflects the background of the sky and the clouds.

 This is a horizontal reflection too. The background doesn't reflect this tie; only the foreground with the woman laying down is reflected.

 In this image, the window and the reflected object are not touching. It is reflected horizontally, however the reflection is not man made like the others.

This is a slightly different reflection. Though it's reflected horizontally, the reflection is in the middle of the photo, and doesn't take up the bottom half of the image.

This is a very different reflection , as it is not across a straight line, and it is reflected vertically rather than horizontally

Shape - Image Bank

This image presents a circular shape at the top, and there is a circular pattern that gets larger as you approach the foreground.

This image shows several circles. The one that is noticed first is the one in foreground, and there are lots more shown in the mid ground and background.

The photograph above shows petals hanging from a branch. They present a heart shape, with a rounded, almost oval shape attached to the bottom of them. They are irregular shapes.

This is an image created by people's fingers. It creates the shape of a star, which is an irregular shape.

  This photo makes use of negative space to create an irregular shape. The shape has lots of corners.

Tone - Image Bank

This image is in black and white, so there are lots of dull tones, however, there is a large gamut of dull tones, from full white to full black.

This shows brighter tones than the previous image. I has a very sharp black tone as well as two different blue tones.

This image has a small gamut, as most of the image appears in a white or grey tone. The only part of the image which shows a darker tone is the tree, which is closer to black.

This image also has a limited amount of tones. This image has been taken using a Sepia filter, meaning most of the tone is a brownish grey that is typical to Sepia. There are a few deviations from this tone at the back of the Lion's mane, as there are some darker tones there.

The photo above looks almost overexposed. This is because the person who took this photograph has either adjusted the white balance in photoshop or on their camera so that there are lots of white tones. The picture almost entirely consists of white tones, with a few grey tones on the handrail to the right.

Texture - image bank

This image shows the very rough texture of ropes. They have lots of lines in them and are discoloured in parts where they are flaking off. This image also shows a pattern in the ropes.

These textures are slightly smoother than the ones shown above. Some of them have smooth lines that look as if they have been marked on the rocks, however some have a large mixture of tones and lots of lines going in different directions, giving them a rougher tone.

This has very smooth textures in it. The image shows part of an object made of wicker wood, and the pieces of wood appear to be slick, as if they have been varnished. Together, they create a more jagged texture due to the individual pieces weaving in and out of each other.

This photo has lots of very rough and uneven textures in it. On the wall to the right, the bricks are very eroded and have lots of dips, bumps and missing pieces. The floor is smoother, though still has lots of bumps and imperfections in it.

The image above shows three texture, which are very similar to each other. They are all very scaly, however the middle texture has lots of bumps and wrinkles in it. The texture on the right has lots of deep grooves and sharp edges, whereas the one the left has some scales and lots of rounded bumps that appear boney and hard.